Inspired by kirigami, a type of Japanese paper art, researchers have created a new material that transforms from a grid into ...

These days, large language models can handle increasingly complex tasks, writing complex code and engaging in sophisticated ...

Numberphile revived an ancient multiplication trick—halves and doubles—also called Egyptian or Russian math, where you repeatedly halve one number and double the other. After crossing out rows with ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Numberphile revived an ancient multiplication trick—halves and doubles—also called Egyptian or Russian math, where you repeatedly halve one number ...

When the lights go out in winter, you are not thinking in abstract kilowatts, you are thinking about food spoiling and rooms ...

Scientists have developed a new technique that doubles the amount of hydrogen produced when splitting water molecules with ...

Managing your inbox is a never-ending task, which is why we should seek to simplify it as much as possible. When emails pile up, you start overthinking what you need to do—I know I do, anyway. But if ...

A childhood math pattern led me to question Jung’s claim that archetypes exist beyond the mind—and to ask which patterns come ...

Getting good sleep is critical. A 2018 study found that people who sleep for five to six hours are 19 percent less productive than people who regularly sleep for seven to eight hours per night. People ...

When I was in middle school, I had a classmate who would look at trigonometric functions and yell, "I will never need these!" ...

So many productivity methods ask you to prioritize your daily tasks by considering how much time or effort they'll require, then tackling the resource-heavy ones first. For some people, that's a solid ...